About Me

My interests are in developing more knowledge to reduce violence against children and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), with the aim of improving child and family wellbeing. In this research I try to understand the family and community origins of aggression, antisocial behavior, anxiety and depression. My current research focuses on parenting and child development in international context. I try to understand these issues within the context of current conversations about children’s rights.

A particular focus of my work has been to examine the outcomes of physical punishment. Working closely with many colleagues, we have shown that physical punishment is associated with a wide variety of negative outcomes, even when used minimally, or when used in ostensibly “normative” ways.

I teach courses mostly in the area of statistics, quantitative methods and data visualization.

A little bit about my background
My CV

“Blog-ish” Posts

posts

Selected Courses

Data Visualization

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling

Categorical Data Analysis

Research on Parenting and Child Development

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) (UNICEF Data)

The Association between Spanking and Physical Abuse of Young Children in 56 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Article
- HTML Slides of Abstract
Patterns of Caregiver Aggressive & Nonaggressive Discipline Toward Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Latent Class Approach
- Article
- ArcGIS Storymap
“Multilevel ecological analysis of the predictors of spanking across 65 countries”
“Global Perspectives on Positive and Negative Parenting: A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis”
- Abstract
- Article
“Spanking and young children’s socioemotional development in low- and middle-income countries”
- Open Access
- Data Visualization
- Child Trends News Service has released a well done video summarizing this research.